[whatwg] use cases for untitled article and section elements

Ian Yang ian at invigoreight.com
Tue Jan 15 04:15:26 PST 2013


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela at cs.tut.fi>wrote:

> 2013-01-15 11:57, Steve Faulkner wrote:
>
>  Can anyone point me to or provide use cases for untitled article and
>> section elements?
>>
>
> The example that first comes into my mind is a discussion forum where
> contributions (which would appear to match the <article> idea) can be
> posted, and are usually posted, without a title of any kind. A discussion
> has a title (subject), but individual contributions are basically just
> text, though in advanced systems they may contain markup.


Me, too. The one came into my mind is blog comments, which are often coded
using untitled <article>s. But personally I think that is wrong because
every sectioning element should have a heading.

Regards,
Ian Yang



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